Read: Questions about Jose Reyes
In a report for Newsday, Jim Baumbach writes about the mystery surrounding Jose Reyes, whose current injury went from a one-day concern in May to scar tissue and inflammation in July.
Today, in a report for Newsday, David Lennon refers to Reyes’s injury as a ‘torn hamstring tendon.’
In the end, Baumbach asks, “What kind of player will Reyes be when he returns next season? And what kind of effect might this injury have on him physically, and mentally? These are questions neither Reyes nor the Mets know the answer to. The answers could go a long in deciding the team’s fate in 2010.”
…as i said over the weekend, from what i understand, reyes has been pretty idle for the last week or so… and, furthermore, the team, and some players on the team, are not happy about it… the buzz from Citi Field suggests much of jose’s delay might be in his head, not his leg, in that he might be gun-shy to push it for fear of making things work…
…i can’t help but wonder how this might have played out had the Mets immediately put jose on the disabled list, when he first complained of tightness in his calf back in May… instead, they waited, he tested it, they waited more, he played, they waited, tested, then the DL, more testing, more waiting, and here we are, with questions about the team’s handling and questions about reyes…
For more, be sure to check out Baumbach’s report, here.
